Just finished a book on The Supremes by Mark Ribowsky in which he states that Popcorn Wylie left Motown (early 60's) to join a label called Northern Soul!

 

Never heard of that one before, or is it common knowledge?

 

Paul

One of his first 45s was on Northern so that's where it got twisted

Just finished a book on The Supremes by Mark Ribowsky in which he states that Popcorn Wylie left Motown (early 60's) to join a label called Northern Soul!

 

Never heard of that one before, or is it common knowledge?

 

Paul

 

Mark sure has his facts mixed up!

There was a label called Northern and a label called Northern de La in Detroit in the 60's, but the phrase Northern Soul wasn't even in place until the early 70's.

Popcorn Wylie left Motown in spring 1962, to join Robert Bateman and Sonny Sanders at Wilbur Golden's Correc-Tone Records.  He had recorded with Johnnie Mae Matthews' Northern Records in late 1959/beginning of 1960, just before changing from a part-timer to a full-timer with Motown.

 

"But the phrase Northern Soul wasn't even in place until the early 70's".  So true.  Those 2 English words probably NEVER appeared adjacent to each other (in ANY context) during the early 1960s.

 

"Just finished a book on The Supremes by Mark Ribowsky in which he states that Popcorn Wylie left Motown (early 60's) to join a label called Northern Soul!"  People who write books should really do extensive research and editing before releasing books or so-called, "informative" literature of any kind.  I've read a lot of inaccurate material and a lot of nonsense in recent years.  A lot of drivel turns to would-be "substantiated" "information" on The Internet.  People shouldn't use Wikipedia as an "authority".